Well, we all have to go _some_ time. FOURTH PALLBEARER Yes; a man never knows but what his turn'll come next. FIFTH PALLBEARER You can't tell nothing by looks. Them sickly fellows generally lives to be old. SIXTH PALLBEARER Yes; the doctors say it's the big stout person that goes off the soonest. They say typhord never kills none but the healthy. FIRST PALLBEARER So I have heered it said. My wife's youngest brother weighed 240 pounds. He was as strong as a mule. He could lift a sugar-barrel, and then some. Once I seen him drink damn near a whole keg of beer. Yet it finished him in less'n three weeks--and _he_ had it mild. SECOND PALLBEARER It seems that there's a lot of it this fall. THIRD PALLBEARER Yes; I hear of people taken with it every day. Some say it's the water. My brother Sam's oldest is down with it. FOURTH PALLBEARER I had it myself once. I was out of my head for four weeks. FIFTH PALLBEARER That's a good sign. SIXTH PALLBEARER Yes; you don't die as long as you're out of your head. FIRST PALLBEARER It seems to me that there is a lot of sickness around this year. SECOND PALLBEARER I been to five funerals in six weeks. THIRD PALLBEARER I beat you. I been to six in five weeks, not counting this one. FOURTH PALLBEARER A body don't hardly know what to think of it scarcely. FIFTH PALLBEARER That's what _I_ always say: you can't tell who'll be next. SIXTH PALLBEARER Ain't it true! Just think of _him_. FIRST PALLBEARER Yes; nobody woulda picked _him_ out. SECOND PALLBEARER Nor my brother John, neither. THIRD PALLBEARER Well, what _must_ be _must_ be. FOURTH PALLBEARER Yes; it don't do no good to kick. When a man's time comes he's got to go. FIFTH PALLBEARER We're lucky if it ain't us. SIXTH PALLBEARER So I always say. We ought to be thankful. FIRST PALLBEARER That's the way _I_ always feel about it. SECOND PALLBEARER It wouldn't do _him_ no good, no matter _what_ we done. THIRD PALLBEARER We're here to-day and gone to-morrow. FOURTH PALLBEARER But it's hard all the same. FIFTH PALLBEARER It's hard on _her_. SIXTH PALLBEARER Yes, it is. Why should _he_ go? FIRST PALLBEARER It's a question nobody ain't ever answered. SECOND PALLBEARER Nor never won't. THIRD PALLBEARER You're right there. I talked to a preacher about it once, and even _he_ couldn't give no answer to it. FOURTH PALLBEARER The more you think about it the less you can make it out. FIFTH PALLBEARER When I seen him last Wednesday he had no more ideer of it than what you had. SIXTH PALLBEARER Well, if I had _my_ choice, that's the way I would always want to die. FIRST PALLBEARER Yes; that's what _I_ say. I am with you there. SECOND PALLBEARER Yes; you're right, both of you. It don't do no good to lay sick for months, with doctors' bills eatin' you up, and then have to go anyhow. THIRD PALLBEARER